"After the confetti is swept and the champagne bottles are tossed a more sober reality will take hold. Not just that her net gain of delegates this week will be, at most, in the single digits. But worse. There is no plausible scenario in which Clinton can win the nomination. At least not democratically."

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Source : "It’s 3 a.m. and Hillary’s Dreaming" by Marc Cooper, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.

Marc Cooper

#Winning Quotes #Reality Quotes #Bottles Quotes

“Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.”
“Privilege is not in and of itself bad; what matters is what we do with privilege. I want to live in a world where all women have access to education, and all women can earn PhDâ€™s, if they so desire. Privilege does not have to be negative, but we have to share our resources and take direction about how to use our privilege in ways that empower those who lack it.”
“In whatever sport of field of endeavor you are interested, you should do whatever is necessary to compliment your God-given talent with proper mental preparation so as to do "the best you can." The criterion should be to fully exploit your potential rather than to win at any cost. What more could anyone ever ask of you than to be the best you possibly can?”
“Twitter is great and it's glorious and it's easy, but if somebody comes up with something kind of like Twitter tomorrow, that's better or smarter or more useful, in three weeks time, Twitter could more or less be history because that's how fast things go.”
“What takes us back to the past are the memories. What brings us forward is our dreams.”
“I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.”
“There are all kinds of mix tapes. there is always a reason to make one.”

Source : Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.17, Crown Archetype
“The Seventeenth Amendment serves not the public's interest but the interests of the governing masterminds and their disciples. Its early proponents advanced it not because they championed 'democracy' or the individual, but because they knew it would be one of several important mechanisms for empowering the federal government and unraveling constitutional republicanism.”

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